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Victor's Kaci Messier, left, takes a shot for a Blue Devils goal against Brighton's Kelzi VanAtta during Class B girls lacrosse championship girls at Eastridge Wednesday on Wednesday. <137>Victor won the title with an 8-7 victory over Brighton. She also had the game winning goal.<137>(Photo: KRIS J. MURANTE/@krismurante/STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER)

IRONDEQUOIT – History didn't matter in the Section V girls lacrosse title game. Brighton's 13 titles in the 16 years were irrelevant and so was fact that Victor had never won a crown.

All that mattered was what took place on Wednesday at East Irondequoit Eastridge High School, as the second-seeded Blue Devils rallied late, scoring twice in the final three minutes to win an 8-7 thriller and the Class B championship. Victor (17-2) will play the Section VI champion in Saturday's 1 p.m. state quarterfinals at Honeoye Falls-Lima.

"It was probably the most exciting thing I've ever felt in my entire life. It was awesome," freshman Kaci Messier said about her low, 8-meter shot for the winning goal with 1:38 remaining.

Another underclassman, sophomore Bridget Flynn, scored the last of her team-leading three goals to tie it at 7 on another 8-meter shot with 2:51 to go. That ended a 16-minute scoring drought for Victor.

"We practiced a lot these situations," Flynn said. "We knew who we had to get the ball to. We knew what we had to do and we just made it happen."

It was no surprise that two of the younger players came up big. "They're two very strong players. They're amazing. We expect big things out of them," senior midfielder Hannah Savage said.

Goals by Clare McKenna and Lauren Smolensky, who had three, gave defending champion Brighton (16-3) a 7-6 lead with 10:40 remaining. The Barons had led 5-3 late in the half, but goals by Victor seniors Megan Maloney (goal/assist) just before intermission and Savage (two goals) early in the second half tied it.

"We weren't intimidated," Maloney said.

Why would Victor be? It beat Brighton 10-8 on May 1 and because of that "we knew coming into this game that they were a beatable team this year," second-year Devils coach Jamie Smith said.

Brighton had a chance to tie it in the final 90 seconds, but a free-position pass from Emilie Goldman to Smolensky was broken up in front of Victor goalie Liz Nussbaum and the Devils ran out the clock.

"We kind of rushed there at the end when we had the ball a couple of times," said Brighton coach Rich Curtis, whose team got strong play by senior goalie Sara Tullio. "We had to make a defensive stand and unfortunately of eight-meters and they scored off of them."

This time during the awards presentation it was the Brighton girls who had tears of sadness while the Victor girls were giddy with excitement.

"To beat them twice in a row," Savage said, smiling wide, "it's just kind of unbelievable for us."